New Gulf Oil Spill Models Released: Panic Now, Miami

by Choire SichaJuly 2, 2010

“Florida Keys, Miami and Fort Lauderdale areas” have a “61 to 80 percent” chance of being “oiled,” “due to the potential influence of the Loop Current. Any oil reaching this area would have spent considerable time degrading and dispersing and would be in the form of scattered tar balls and not a large surface slick of oil.”